White was born in
Ealing, now a part of London, to a mother from Sussex and a father who was a solicitor from Somerset. After attending
St George's School in
Harpenden, White studied at the
Slade School of Fine Art in central London, where she won a painting prize. After the Slade, White entered the
Central School of Arts and Crafts and was awarded a sculpture scholarship before studying at the
Royal Academy Schools where she won silver and bronze medals and a
Feodora Gleichen memorial grant. After graduating White created sculpture figures, heads and busts in stone, clay and bronze as well as painting portraits in both oils and pastels. White was an elected Fellow of the
Royal Society of British Sculptors. For many years White lived at
Hampstead in north London and then had a studio at Kingsdown in Kent before spending her later years at
Bexhill-on-Sea in Sussex. ==References==